Loom-picker



(No Model.)

P. H. CONNOR.

LOOM PIGKER.

No. 405,947. Patented June 25, 1889..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATRICK H. CONNOR, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

LOOM-PICKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,947, dated June 25,1889. Application filed August 24, 1888. Serial No. 283,618- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICK H. CONNOR, of Amesbury, in the county ofEssex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Loom-Pickers, which will, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specificallydefined in the appended claim.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a loom-picker embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation taken as viewed from the left inFig. 1. Fig. 3 is asection taken on line X X, Fig. 1,and Fig.4 isasection on line Z Z, Fig. 1.

This invention relates to the driver that is actuated by thepicker-staff of looms, and which imparts the momentum thus acquired tothe shuttle, thereby causing it to move in its race, said driver beingtermed a pickerg and the improvement consists in features of noveltythat will be herein described, and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to said drawings, A is the body of the picker, which may beformed of leather, green hide, or other moldable material of req- Saidbody is formed by molding with tubular portion a, that receives theguide-rod b and the cheeks c c. A metal socket 6, formed with a radialfin (Z, is secured to body A by rivets f, that pass through boththicknesses of said body, and also through said fin, and secure therespective parts together. Said socket is formed with a bottom or baseIt, in which is an axial hole 1', and a cylinder g, of wood or othersuitable material, is forced closely into said socket, and is thereinsecured by a short screw h, if requisite.

A thin filling-piece j may for convenience of construction be insertedbetween cheeks c, to fill out the cavity left above the thin end of fin(Z.

By thus forming my picker with body A, of leather or other suitable oranalogous material, somewhat elastic and yielding, I avoid allobjectionable rigidity, and by means of the socket e, of metal, formedwith a broad thin fin and filled with wood or other nonmetallic materialof proper resistance and tenacity, the socket and filling are not onlyheld by the body in proper relation to the other parts, but the filling,when worn past usefulness, may be easily displaced from the socket bymeans of a drift-bolt inserted in hole 'i and new filling be substitutedtherefor.

It will be obvious that the socket e may be filled with layers ofleather, green hide, or any of the numcrousvulcanized or otherwisehardened fibrous or pulp-like productions, instead of wood; but thelatter is inexpensive and durable.

I I am aware of the patent issued January 28, 1873, to W. Taylor forpickers for looms, and I claim nothing that is shown or describedtherein, my invention being unlike that shown in said Letters Patent inthe following respects: The tubes at e of my picker are each formed of asingle thickness and each of one material, the tube a being formed ofgreen hide or other non-metallic material and integral with cheeks 0,While tube 6 is formed of metal and integral with fin (1, said tube andfin being an integral casting and the tube being formed with theperforated end k, that serves as the abutment for the filling g. InTaylors patent the tubes are not only laminated, but the metallicre-enforce is of very thin sheet metal, and is doubled where itconstitutes a part of the shank of the picker.

I claim as my invention- A loom-picker having tube 6, fin d, and theperforated end It, formed of metal as an integral casting, the tubea andcheeks 0, formed from one piece of green hide or other suitablenon-metallic material, said cheeks terminating at the junction of fin dand tube e and secured to said fin by rivet-s, and a suitable packing g,inserted in tube 6 and abutted against end It, all substantially asspecified.

PATRICK H. CONNOR.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE B. HIOKEN, CHARLES L. AYERS.

